Supporting clinicians to address health inequalities in practice
This report looked at clinicians ’ confidence in talking about and understanding health inequalities. It finds that most clinicians feel they haven't received enough training on health inequalities and would like more as part of their medical education. Of the almost 1,000 clinicians surveyed, 67 per cent of respondents had not received teaching or training in health inequalities within a training programme or as part of their degree, and only 26 per cent felt confident in their ability to reduce the impact of health inequalities in their medical practice.ReportRoyal College of Physicians - news (Source: Health Manag...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 29, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Public health and health inequalities Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
These 8 Countries Could Put Together The World ’ s Most Advanced Healthcare System
If we are looking for the one thing common in the healthcare systems in various countries, is that no one has ever been truly satisfied with their own. The level of satisfaction/dissatisfaction of course varies widely between countries and is closely related to the economic performance and possibilities available for the given country in the past centuries/decades. But as we will see, with having focus and working for the right goals, it is possible to fully transform a country and its healthcare in just a few decades.
Can we, dreaming freely, come up with the perfect system? There are so many good examples all over the...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 27, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Future of Medicine Science Fiction e-patient Healthcare healthcare design digital technology health IT healthcare system longevity digital health technologies Future of healthcare patient inclusion Source Type: blogs
Making research everybody ’s business
Royal College of Physicians (RCP) - The RCP, together with the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) have published a joint position statement setting out a series of recommendations for making research part of everyday practice for all clinicians. Clinical research is essential to improving outcomes for patients, and by improving the efficiency and efficacy of care it can be a vital tool in tackling waiting list backlogs and reducing the pressure on the NHS.Position statementMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - October 19, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
RCP view on the NHS workforce: short- and medium-term solutions
Royal College of Physicians -This policy paper outlines how staffing shortages are the biggest barrier to meeting demand for care and delivering health care sustainably in the long-term. It describes how a long-term plan for increasing staffing numbers, including expanding medical school places, is needed to put the NHS workforce back on sustainable footing, restore timely access to care and protect patient safety. It urges the government to publish the forthcoming long-term NHS workforce strategy by the end of 2022.Policy paperRoyal College of Physicians - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - October 14, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
The geriatric medicine workforce 2022
This report examines data collected by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) on the consultant and Higher Specialty Trainee geriatric medicine workforce. This data, which was collected between 2019 and 2021 as part of the RCP ’s annual workforce census, demonstrates the staffing challenges facing older people’s healthcare. Despite the growth in medical student places, there are not enough specialist healthcare professionals being trained and retained to meet the needs of the population as it ages.ReportPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - September 5, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
8 Tips to Improve Your Concentration Power and Productivity
This article shares eight tips to improve concentration power.
Here we go.
Do one task at a time and develop strong willpower
By exercising strong willpower, you can avoid temptations that would otherwise divert your attention. Making definite, detailed goals, committing to them, and focusing on one thing at a time will help you strengthen your willpower. Having a schedule, setting time aside for work completion, and reminding yourself daily of why your goals are important will also help you develop willpower.
Meditate
Meditate for at least 15 minutes in the morning to stop your racing thoughts, reduce...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 22, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Joann Mundin Tags: career confidence featured productivity tips psychology self-improvement success concentration Source Type: blogs
Personalised prescribing: using pharmacogenomics to improve patient outcomes
This report, from a RCP and British Pharmacological Society joint working party, explains how a type of testing, known as pharmacogenomic testing, should be deployed across the NHS to ensure all patients have an equal chance of being prescribed a medicine at a dose that is likely to be safe and effective for them, with minimal side effects. There can be enormous variation from person to person in whether a medicine works, whether it causes serious side effects and what dose is needed. The report states that testing patients for genetic variations that affect how their body will respond to common medicines must be integrate...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 29, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Patient safety Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Caring for hospital patients with Covid-19: quality of care in England examined by case record review
This study recruited a sample and demographic representative of English hospitals ’ experience of the Covid-19 pandemic. It gathered information about the quality of care delivered from 19 organisations which between them accounted for a population of almost 10.5 million people. The study reviewed 510 patient cases and their care to identify learnings from the pandemic. It conc luded that overall care delivered was judged to have been adequate or better in 96.5 per cent of the patient cases.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - August 3, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Covid-19 Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Smoking and health 2021: a coming of age for tobacco control?
This report reviews the UK ’s progress in reducing smoking prevalence, and sets out comprehensive recommendations for England’s forthcoming National Tobacco Control Plan. It says that while the reduction in smoking prevalence by 75 per cent since 1962 has been considered a national success, if the policies advocated by th e RCP in 1962 had been adopted and followed through, smoking would have been eradicated from the UK years ago.ReportRoyal College of London - press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 20, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
Modern ward rounds: good practice for multidisciplinary inpatient review
This report (produced together with the Royal College of Nursing, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and NHS England, and developed along with patients) sets out best practice for modern ward rounds. It brings together the good practice currently being delivered in the NHS and enables clinical teams to self-assess against this and identify priorities for improvement.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 12, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Double or quits: a blueprint for expanding medical school places
This report outlines a blueprint for the doubling of medical school places that will enable the NHS workforce to get back on a sustainable footing over the next decade. It calls on the government to lift the cap on medical school places in England this year to be maintained with a larger, ongoing increase in the numbers of places, acknowledging that workforce shortages have hampered the NHS ’s ability to provide care during the pandemic and placed additional pressure on staff.ReportPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 7, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Medical CCT class of 2018: 2019 survey results
This report analyses data from eight years ’ worth of annual surveys reporting on the experiences of, and outcomes for, clinicians within a year of passing their medical certificate completion of training (CCT). The findings find consistent evidence of trainees from BAME background being less successful at consultant interview.ReportRoyal College of Physicians - press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - October 21, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Equality and diversity Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Rebuilding the NHS: resetting outpatient services for the 21st century in the context of Covid-19
Royal College of Physicians (RCP) - In this document the RCP, together with the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), set out principles and recommendations for the reset of outpatient services. The Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated that the NHS can adapt quickly and presents an opportunity to reset outpatient services.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 13, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Changing configuration of health services Source Type: blogs
Rebuilding the NHS: improving medical pathways for acute care
Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) - The RCEM, together with the Royal College of General Practitioners, Royal College of Physicians and the Society for Acute Medicine, have made recommendations for the immediate transformation of the urgent and emergency care pathway. As the Covid-19 pandemic continues, the public must be confident that they will receive urgent and emergency care in a safe environment The statement set out some principles and makes ten recommendations.StatementPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 13, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Changing configuration of health services NHS measurement and performance Source Type: blogs
Returning the NHS to an even keel
Royal College of Physicians - This briefing provides insight into the challenges facing medical specialties. It shows that almost half of physician specialities, including cardiology, gastroenterology and rheumatology, expect to be working at less than previous pre-Covid activity levels for at least 12 months or more. The briefing captures several aspects of restarting activity including specialty capacity, adaptations to services, co-dependencies. It also provides an insight into potential capacity scenarios in genitourinary medicine and rheumatology.BriefingMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 29, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS finances and productivity Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
